Definitions for zamindar

zamindar za·min·dar

Spelling: [zuh-meen-dahr]
IPA: /zə minˈdɑr/

Zamindar is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in zamindar (aadimnrz).

Definitions for zamindar

noun

  1. (in British India) a landlord required to pay a land tax to the government.
  2. (in Mogul India) a collector of farm revenue, who paid a fixed sum on the district assigned to him.

Origin of zamindar

1675-85; Hindi Persian zamīndār landholder, equivalent to zamīn earth, land + -dār holding, holder

Examples for zamindar

According to the story, the zamindar asked an Idaiyan whether he would marry a widow.

This was considered impertinent by the zamindar, as marriage of widows was common among the Maravars.

He wished he had stripped the zamindar whom he had left on the ground.

The missy sahib whom you saved from the zamindar has a father in Delhi, but she knows not where.

Clearly he had not told him what Ahmed had said of the capture of the English girl by a zamindar.

The husbands accept as their own any children their wives may bear to the zamindar.

As for Yusuf Khan, the zamindar, the moment Ted had spoken, he had wiped his blade and thrust it back into the wooden sheath.

As in the old days, every soldier in our host shall become a zamindar.

Seeing no other way of crossing, we were preparing to doff our clothes and ford, when a good soul of a zamindar came up.

Adultery within the caste, or with the zamindar, is tolerated.

Word Value for zamindar
Scrable

20

Words with friends

22

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